Playas and salt flats of the historic Virginia Salt Marsh, mined from 1862 when camels hauled salt to Comstock mills—later a Carson & Colorado railroad stop and 20th-century alkali/borax works. Broad white pan and evaporite geology sit beside US-95 between Mina and Hawthorne, readable as both industrial landscape and Basin-and-Range lakebed remnant. Pin the marsh margin visitor viewpoint rather than any active industrial enclosure.
Field facts
| Region | Mineral County, NV |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 38.2890, -118.0776 |
| County | Mineral |
| GNIS | 856353 (Rhodes Salt Marsh); Rhodes historical 857487 |
| Also known as | Virginia Salt Marsh |
| History | Salt production from 1862; railroad station later |
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